Can hospital administrators type change a patient from a valid private election back to being public without the patient’s consent?

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What happens to billing of a private patient in a public hospital who undergoes solid organ (other than kidney) transplantation? There is no MBS item billable for this so it can’t be billed to the patient’s private insurance, so can the hospital just change them back to public or does the patient have to be involved in that decision?

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